Seasonal Considerations

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, but having written about love at some length in my last post, I thought about food. Festivals and special days like Valentine’s Day are celebrated the world over by feasts of special dishes, and archaeology suggests that has been a feature human societies for a long time. In our house this year it will some wonderful cheese from The Courtyard Dairy, and a Nigella’s Devil’s Food Cake.

There’s plenty of food and cooking in Ghost Train (“I skipped those bits,” said JB – my partner and fellow Castle Sefton Press author John Blake – who isn’t at all interested in culinary matters.)… Read the whole post “The Fawlty Towers Spanish Omelette”